Las Cumbres Amateur Outreach Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004

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Big Band Band Traveling Star Show

Big Bang Band

Mr. Angelo Parisi, Mr. Matt Gardner, and Ms. Terry Dye, members of northern California's "Big Bang Band," are recipients of the Society's Las Cumbres Award for 2004. The Award is given to an individual or group in recognition of outstanding educational outreach by an amateur astronomer(s) to grade K-12 children and/or the interested lay public. The Society was particularly impressed by the Band's members' outstanding contributions to public outreach by writing and performing original music with astronomical themes, providing educational and entertaining activities for students and the general public, and conducting numerous star parties for the public.